I was dumbfounded. Surely this could not be my friend's father. People in News of the Weird are supposed to be random people you can laugh at and not feel bad about doing it. But, in my heart, I knew it had to be her father. The facts were all there.

So, the next time I saw her online I messaged her and asked,
"Your dad's name is Dennis right?"
She said that his name was, in fact, Dennis.
"I was reading the paper today, and I found this article that mentioned a Dennis so and so from Indiana and I thought that was your father's name."
"Oh really?? What was the article about."
I typed out the article for her. It was only a couple paragraphs.
"So, your dad has a platinumtooth?"
"Yeah, he does. He just got it a couple months ago."Ok, surely he got it from a dentist, I thought to myself.
"Oh, so its platinum? Was that expensive?"
"What? No, didn't you read the article? He got it from God. He just woke up one morning and he had it."Whoa, shit. She believes its from God too! What do I say to that!? What could I say to that?
"Oh ok, thats cool then."

What else could I have said? I didn't want to really question her beliefs because she was obviously very set in them already. I went on to change the subject, but later she told me that her father wanted me to send the article to him. I did. I don't know what he wanted to do with it. It was making fun of him. Oh well. I don't talk to her much anymore.